Prime Ministers Questions

[kfseattle]

Prime Minister's Questions:  I watch them on C-SPAN's website and pretend I'm watching my own President.  I can't stand Bush.  Bush would get torn to Shreds if he had to face House Democrats.  The thought of it makes me laugh...

I don't know why the political debate in this country is so mediocre.  I think Americans have just come to expect it, and the media doesn't question in, so it happens.  In England, you get these weekly debates between the PM and parliament...it's AWESOME to watch.  

It makes the regular C-SPAN fare of some dude speaking in a big empty room seem like...well, just that.

I really wish we'd demand more from our politicians...like that they debate each other more openly and freely...

Instead of having Nancy Pelosi rip into Bush, or Bush rip into Nancy Pelosi (either of which I'd pay to watch, btw), we have this garbage that passes for news like FOX who just kind of tell us what to believe.  Wouldn't it be better to hear it straight from the politicians themselves--not paraphrased or summed up or analyzed by some idiot on television??  

I love watching Blair and Michael Howard go at it.  And they really do!!  They let each other have it, and it's great!  I really wish we'd do that in the US.  I really do.  We'd never have presidents like George W. Bush if we did, because speaking extemporaneously would be a job requirement.